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Sinaloa cartel ring busted 1,400 miles from its Mexican headquarters

(January 17, 2022) — The large-scale drug trafficking operation of an infamous cartel just got busted in a mountain state some 1,400 miles from its Mexican headquarters and only one U.S. official, a local prosecutor, has dared to acknowledge the

Foreign Policy

Despite pandemic, Mexican cartels remain criminal threat to U.S.

Mexican cartels adjusted to restrictions imposed by the global pandemic last year to smuggle huge amounts of narcotics into the U.S. and remain the greatest criminal drug threat to the country, expanding the market as methamphetamine deaths skyrocket. The government

Latin America

Can Latin America’s coronavirus schooling crisis be prevented?

BY ANDRES MARTINEZ-FERNANDEZ By most measures, Latin America has become the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with the region struggling to cope with both the pandemic and the resulting socio-economic crises. Now, governments are forced to make difficult decisions